Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-01
PEARLS CAST BEFORE SWINE
The Love Of Pretty Cincinnati Girl Laid
at the Feet of Paris Fiend.
PARIS PECULIAR
PEOPLE
Children's Palm Sunday Service-A
Preacher Who Upsets Conscience
French Prejudice Against
Wagner-A RacyLetter.

-rrcUCu IrCJu aRatusS
wagner-A Racy Letter.
PARIS, April 16.-[Correspondence of
the BEE. DR.. Koch was captain to
Prince Alexander of Battenberg, and
now publishes his experience of the Bull
garians and running commentary on
the events connected with the reign of
the ex-prince The divinity doctor does
not SO much let cats out of the bag, rs
to let in light, on the great game of hy-
pocrisy played, and still playing, in the
Balkan peninsula. Prince Alexander
can we'll subscribe to the maxim, uneasy
lies the head that wears a CROWN rs he
on one occasion wrote to his sister, the
Comtesse d. Erboch, his throne was
seated on dynamite" And yet his arch
enemy the czar, is if anything worse.
Alexander retired from business, and at
home with his pa, is q thousand times
more comfortable than Alexander Ill.,, of
Ru ssia, who if he promenades in the
streets of his capital, is exposed to be
blown into fragments, and il he takes his
walk abroad IN the seclusion Of Gatschera
park, runs the risk of being shot by his
own sentinel officers. Munkacsy's Last
Day of Condemned" is a relief beside
the agony of the white czar, for we know
how his nerves are unstrung, and the
fear of death is most inapprehension.
Nor can he omit from his bed of torture,
that if he comedies u constitution, his
mobiles have also decided means, how to
deal with disobedient or flighty czars.
At the time the revolution broke out in
Roumelia, the three emperors expressed
the most perfect surprise. All a farce
| The outbreak was planned and the date
fixed to openthe ball in the presence of
the official representatives of Russia,
who furthermore signed the minutes lof
the meeting, and copy was sent to st.
pointed when the resolution failed to
sweep away his namesake. DR.. Koch
Assens Bismarck was delighted at the
spectacle OF
A GERMAN RULING IN BULGARIA
and his whole aim is, remembering his
contempt for mankind, and his readiness
to sacrifice the whole world for the in
terests of Germany" to use Bulgaria as
n bon bon to recOmpense whatever power
would be most useful to him in his little
game. Coming from Teuton, that is
rough on the chancellor.
Palm Sunday had in its favor
most lovely weather, baby spring-not
more than fortnight old by the
SIlllleS anu WHICH Woulu nave peeH cN-
tremely warm, only dsagreeable
relative from }he northeast accompanied
the popular favorlte. "Hosanna Sun.
day." as it is sometimes called on the
continent, is ardently looked toward to
by young and old; the young rejoice
they are year older, and the aged, that
they may count on living round to the
next winter. Palm being limited in sap
| ply in France, box does duty as substi-
tnto In, ha nrnyinaas xuinra tha cnr,h
| is almost Il tree, branches are cut, and
| suspended therefrOm are apples or cakes,
| tied with white and blue ribbons, and
| that are given to those children who are
most forward in their preparations for
confirmation. A sprig of box presentedby
| an infant to an aged person, signifies long
| life.
A morsel Of blessed box is continually
placed in the hands of deceased; and it
is accepted as q preservative against
lightning-may it also prove eflicaclous
| against earthquakes. In Brittany and in
the neighborhood where Nj. Renau was
| born, the sacred box is regarded as the
harbinger of good crops, if the sun shines,
pending that it is beng blessed; some
leaves are strewn in the cots of newly
| born babies, such being reputed to keep
away disease. In the south of France
myrtle, laurel and olive are the substi-
| tutes for palm. In Alsace the children
| have q peculiar ceremony on Palm Sun
day; they collect from house to house
the ends of candles, and, fixing
them lighted on a piece of wood to
which string is attached, allow them to
float down stream. The lights, when
burned or washed out, symbolize the
death of winter. Paris depends on Ver-
sailles for her supply of box, and next,
Campiegne and FOuntainbleau. The
wholesale price is tive francs per cut; re-
tailed in the vicinity of the churchs, a
few sprigs cost as many sous and the
poor who sell 1t to the passers by, have
no reason to complain of their two day s
! sales, the eve and the festival.
The increased attendance at the
churches for
THE SPECIAL LENTEN SERVICES
conferences might be equally the ap
most causual observer. Tins is the out
quietly but rapidly taking place in pul
preachers-the Pere Monsabre has beer
the leader of this reformation-have in
Produced modernism" into their ser
mons. And the latter are not orations
but addresses, commonplace, manly
straight-out talks, to the congregations
where everyday sins and wrongs, anC
wees, are attacked and exposed; where
the vices OF men are taken and handled
rs SO many documents, with precision
ana religion, not dogma, prescribed "a
the safety and sheet anc hor for the TEN
pest tossed in the world of doubt, tribula
ton and despair.
The Lenten preachers have receive,
! t',c mot d'ordre. TO draw upon the scien